Word: direly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Americans, watching the spectacle of chronic agricultural overproduction at home, find it hard to believe predictions of a future in which famine stalks a world too populous for the planet to feed. On the contrary, there is evidence that the future may not be so dire. This year's worldwide harvest is the greatest in history for the second straight year. And there are hopeful glimmers from the Rockefeller Foundation's experts that the world is making great strides toward feeding itself...
...implacable euphoria of a lobotomy patient, Aubrey woos and wins the Fishers' younger daughter Amy over the vociferous outrage of the rest of the family. Aubrey does everything wrong-lying with grandiloquent transparency, big-spending his way into debt-and as a husband seems to justify every dire prediction of the fuming Mrs. Fisher. Of course, there turns out to be some good in him after...
What ever happened to the saber-toothed tiger, the dire wolf, the mammoth, the giant beaver, and more than 100 other species of large mammals that once inhabited North America? All that paleontologists know for sure is that about 10,000 years ago, as glaciers retreated northward into Canada during the Late Pleistocene epoch, these animals suddenly became extinct. Their demise, many scientists believe, was caused either by sudden climatic change -which upset their breeding season and produced a lethal sterility-or simply by winter weather, which ironically may have become increasingly severe as the glaciers waned...
...curse you, and pray for them that despitefully use you," embraces the new Negro ethic in its most reasonable application: "Black Power is a call to black people to amass the political and economic strength to achieve their legitimate goals. No one can deny that the Negro is in dire need of this kind of legitimate power...
...awesome. We are marching steadily toward a dangerous confrontation between the rich and poor nations of this small planet. Together, the U.S. and Europe can avert tragedy. But without the cohesion of the Atlantic region, the peace and prosperity-indeed the ultimate survival-of mankind could be in dire jeopardy. We are approaching a crossroads of profound importance...